Re: [PATCH 13/49] libext2fs: repair side effects when iterating dirents in inline dirs

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:55:21PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> In ext2fs_inline_data_dir_iterate(), we must be very careful to undo
> any modifications we make to the dir_context pointer passed in by the
> caller, because it's entirely possible that the caller will still want
> to do something with the ctx or something inside.
> 
> Specifically, ext2fs_dblist_dir_iterate() wants to be able to free
> ctx->buf, and it reuses the ctx for multiple dblist entries.  That
> means that assigning ctx->buf will cause weird crashes at the end of
> dir_iterate().
> 
> Since we're being careful with ctx, we might as well handle adding the
> INLINE_DATA flag to ctx->flags for ext2fs_process_dir_block, since the
> dblist caller forgets to unset the flag before reusing the ctx.
> 
> This fixes some crashes and valgrind complaints in resize2fs, and is
> necessary for the next patch, which fixes resize2fs not to corrupt
> inline_data filesystems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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